STOP BEING SO HARD ON YOURSELF! Yes I\u2019m yelling with the all caps because we all need to have someone yell that at us once in a while.<\/p>\n
We all tend to be our own worst critics in life. And for those of us who are women, we are our own worst critic times ten!<\/p>\n
I have always been a fan of motivation speaker Brian Tracy. In one of his talk series that is a personal favorite of mine called The Psychology of Achievement, he talked about improving our self-image by looking in the mirror each morning and saying \u201cI like myself\u201d and repeating it over and over again each day. When I first heard his advice I thought to myself \u201cThere is no way I would ever do that!\u201d I just thought it would feel too silly. But the more I thought about his words the more I understood the importance of his exercise he was suggesting. He was trying to help us come to recognize that far too many of us don\u2019t like ourselves very much and that was a major obstacle that was holding us back from becoming successful in life. Thus we need to get to a point that we really do like ourselves if we want to become our very best selves and accomplish all that we are capable of.<\/p>\n
When I figured out how important it was to like ourselves I decided maybe it wasn\u2019t so silly to do something as basic as looking in the mirror as we say \u201cI like myself\u201d over and over each day. I learned to put little notes to myself on my mirror reminding myself that I was capable and that I had the ability to succeed at most anything I put my mind to. That and having a hearty collection of Wonder Woman memorabilia to tell myself I was Wonder Woman if I chose to be did wonders for helping me learn to like myself. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
When you do find yourself thinking bad thoughts about yourself try adding the words \u201cup until now\u201d to the end of your negative thought. That will serve as a good reminder that you always have the power to change whatever you aren\u2019t happy with and starting now it is only going to get better from here.<\/p>\n
Starting today, stop\u00a0being so hard on yourself, then\u00a0look in the mirror and say \u201cI like myself\u201d! Then keep saying it as many times as it takes to mean it!<\/p>\n
\u201cThe more you see yourself as what you\u2019d like to become, and act as if what you want is already there, the more you\u2019ll activate those dormant forces that will collaborate to transform your dream into your reality.\u201d<\/span> \u2013 Wayne Dyer<\/p>\n Have a great day everyone! And for the record – YOU ARE GORGEOUS! AND AMAZING! AND BRILLIANT!<\/p>\n ~Amy Rees Anderson<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" STOP BEING SO HARD ON YOURSELF! Yes I\u2019m yelling with the all caps because we all need to have someone yell that at us once in a while. We all tend to be our own worst critics in life. And for those of us who are women, we are our own worst critic times ten! […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6773,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10310,898,367,131,10264,10298,395,10315,10313,10309,10316,445,2568,91,5542,504,4733,224,5800,10306,1951,10308,10290,494,378,5247,10311,10289,10312,9816,35,5057,3344,630,53,10301,217,10314,10297,10307,10300,10265,1773,1050,1629,10304,10303,514,27,519,112,355,1168,10261,2402,1378,149,10305,10302,10263,701,755,784,10299,10262,3778,9252],"class_list":["post-6986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-accept-ourselves","tag-acceptance","tag-achieve","tag-achievement","tag-add-the-words","tag-all-caps","tag-amy-rees-anderson","tag-anything-you-put-your-mind-to","tag-bad-thoughts","tag-becoming-successful","tag-better-from-here","tag-brian-tracy","tag-capable","tag-change","tag-child-of-god","tag-choice","tag-collection","tag-confidence","tag-critic","tag-dont-like","tag-exercise","tag-holding-us-back","tag-i-like-myself","tag-important","tag-improve","tag-like","tag-like-ourselves","tag-like-yourself","tag-linda-carter","tag-look-in-the-mirror","tag-love","tag-memorabilia","tag-mirror","tag-motivate","tag-motivation","tag-motivational-speaker","tag-negative","tag-negative-thoughts","tag-nitpick","tag-obstacle","tag-our-own-worst-critic","tag-power-to-change","tag-quote","tag-recognize","tag-repeat","tag-repeat-it","tag-repeatedly","tag-self-image","tag-self-confidence","tag-self-esteem","tag-self-improvement","tag-silly","tag-stop","tag-stop-being-so-hard-on-yourself","tag-stop-it","tag-succeed","tag-success","tag-suggestion","tag-the-psychology-of-achievement","tag-up-until-now","tag-wayne-dyer","tag-wonder","tag-wonder-woman","tag-worst-critic","tag-yeling","tag-yell","tag-yelling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6986"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7005,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6986\/revisions\/7005"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}